Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.

Tuesday 25 October 2022

Weekly Newsletter From The Institute Of Christ The King Sovereign Priest, Limerick, Ireland.




This Article is a re-print from 2021.

Weekly Newsletter
22nd Sunday after Pentecost
24th October 2021

Dear Friends of Sacred Heart Church,

Sorry for being a bit late in sending you the Sacred Heart Newsletter. These last few days were a bit busy. I will tell you soon about all good news regarding the presence of the Sisters Adorers in Ardee, Co. Louth.

We are well into the month of October in which we started saying the Holy Rosary during our extended time of Adoration. Our Lady told Sr. Lucy that more power and graces are attached to the recitation of the Rosary in these troubled times. Just a reminder that Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is from 4pm to 6pm on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdays each week. The Holy Rosary is recited at 5:15pm. 

Today, 25th October, we have just celebrated the wedding of Richard and Lydia, both regular attendees at our church. Now that restrictions concerning numbers have been lifted, we were happy to see a normal number in the congregation to attend this joyful occasion and to witness this holy union in the sacrament of marriage. Please click on the picture below!

You may remember Ricardo, originally from Brazil, who came to us seeking answers to some questions about our beliefs. He has been receiving catechism lessons here for over a year now. He will be received into the Holy Catholic Church in Rome this week. We thank God for his conversion and we ask you to accompany him with your prayers on his journey, that he may grow strong in Faith.  

I have no doubt that you have noticed two typographical errors in last week’s newsletter? I called Abbe Wells James instead of Jacob. He is in his seventh year and not in his fifth year of his preparation for the Sacred Priesthood.

Next Sunday is the Feast of Christ the King, instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925. I highly recommend reading his encyclical ‘Quas Primas’ that published this feast of the Kingship of Our Lord. Since our community has taken the title of this special feast day as our flagship identity, both in the preparation for and the practice of the Sacred Priesthood, we make a second collection on this day to benefit the formation of our seminarians. Thank you for keeping all our seminarians in your prayers and thank you for your generosity in helping to provide strong and well-formed candidates for this extremely important work, which is the mission that Christ Himself instituted.  

Please do not forget to pray to your Guardian Angels and today especially pray to St. Raphael. You know that he is one of the three Archangels whose names are known to us? The other two are St. Gabriel and St. Michael.

We also pray in a special way for Mr. Trevor Selby whose birthday fell on the feast of St. Raphael (yesterday). We renew our profound gratitude to him for playing the organ so beautifully and putting his skill at the service of Our Lord in the Liturgy. Again with our congratulations and prayers, particularly on this birthday! Deo Gratias!

Wishing you a blessed week,

Yours in Christ,

Canon Lebocq
Prior of Sacred Heart Church
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This ‘Latin - English Mass Booklet’ is a much appreciated aid to the faithful for prayerfully assisting at Holy Mass celebrated in the Extraordinary Form.
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The Battle Of Agincourt. The 607th Anniversary. Saint Crispin’s Day. 25 October 1415.



The Morning of The Battle of Agincourt.
25 October 1415.
Artist: Sir John Gilbert (1817–1897).
Date: 1884.
Author: Sir John Gilbert (1817–1897).
(Wikimedia Commons)


“The Agincourt Carol”.
By: Maddy Prior and June Tabor.
Available on YouTube at


The Thanksgiving Service
on The Field of Agincourt.
Date: Pre-1909.
Source: Edmund Bleigh, Leighton (1909) "The Thanksgiving Service on the Field of Agincourt" in Cassell's History of England (Volume 1. The King's Edition ed.), London, New York, Toronto, Melbourne: Cassell and Company, p. 557 Retrieved on 19 June 2009.
Author: Edmund Leighton (1853–1922).
(Wikimedia Commons)


The Battle of Agincourt:
The Bloodiest Battle of The Mediæval Age.
Available on YouTube at


                          

The Coats-of-Arms
of The Commanders of The English Army
at The Battle of Agincourt, 1415.

On the Left:
King Henry V of England.

In the Middle:
Edward of Langley.
2nd Duke of York.
(Killed at Agincourt).

On the Right:
Humphrey of Lancaster.
1st Duke of Gloucester.

Illustration Credits:

King Henry V of England.
Date: 20 July 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: Sodacan.
(Wikimedia Commons).

Edward of Langley.
Duke of York.
Date: 28 October 2007.
Source: Elements from 50px and
[Image: Blason Beaumont sur Sarthe 7].
Author: Ipankonin.
(Wikimedia Commons).

Humphrey of Lancaster.
Duke of Gloucester.
Date: 16 July 2013.
Source: Own work.
Author: Sodacan.
(Wikimedia Commons).


Henry V (16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422) was King of England from 1413 until his death at the age of thirty-five in 1422. He was the second English Monarch who came from The House of Lancaster.

After military experience fighting the Welsh during the Revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr, and against the powerful aristocratic Percys of Northumberland at The Battle of Shrewsbury, Henry came into political conflict with his father, whose health was increasingly precarious from 1405 onward.

After his father's death in 1413, Henry assumed control of The Country and embarked on war with France in the ongoing Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) between the two Nations. His military successes culminated in his famous victory at The Battle of Agincourt (1415) and saw him come close to conquering France.

Edward of Langley, 2nd Duke of York, KG (1373 – 25 October 1415), was the eldest son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, by his first wife Isabella of Castile, and the grandson of Edward III. He held significant appointments during the reigns of three Monarchs, Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V, and was slain at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Pembroke, KG (3 October 1390 – 23 February 1447), was "son, brother and uncle of Kings", being the fourth and youngest son of King Henry IV of England by his first wife, Mary de Bohun, brother to King Henry V of England, and uncle to the latter's son, King Henry VI of England.

As a son of The Sovereign, Humphrey bore The Arms of The Kingdom, Differenced by a Bordure Argent. [A Bordure Argent is a Silver Border].


Facsimile of The Agincourt Carol (15th-Century).
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Manuscript Archives.
Source: English Carols of the Fifteenth Century.
(Wikimedia Commons)


The Battle of Agincourt.
Henry V.
1944.
Sir William Walton.
Available on YouTube at


"Cry God For Harry,
England, and Saint George".
Henry V.
Sir Laurence Olivier.
1944.
Available on YouTube at

Once more, unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead !

In Peace, there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:

But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;

Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let it pry through the portage of the head

Like the brass cannon; let the brow o’erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock

O’erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean.

Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit

To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof !

Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from Morn’ till Even’ fought

And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest

That those whom you call’d fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,

And teach them how to war. And you, good Yeomen,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here

The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;

For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot:

Follow your spirit, and upon this charge

Cry “ God for Harry, England, and Saint George ! ”


Saint Crispin's Day Speech.
Henry V.
Sir Laurence Olivier.
1944.
Available on YouTube at


What’s he that wishes so ?
My cousin Westmoreland ?
No, my fair cousin:

If we are mark’d to die, we are enough
To do our Country loss; and if to live

The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s Will !, I Pray thee, wish not one man more.

Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this Feast,

Let him depart; his passport shall be drawn
And Crowns for convoy put into his purse:

We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.

This day is called The Feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,

Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.

He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly, on The Vigil, feast his neighbours,

And say: “To-morrow is Saint Crispian”:
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,

And say: “These wounds I had on Crispin’s Day”.
Old men forget: Yet all shall be forgot,

But he’ll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: Then shall our names

Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry The King, Bedford and Exeter,

Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.

This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,

From this day to the ending of the World,
But we in it shall be remember’d;

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so base,

And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,

And hold their manhoods cheap while any speaks

That fought with us
upon Saint Crispin’s Day.


                         

The Coats-of-Arms
of The Commanders of The French Army
at The Battle of Agincourt, 1415.

On the Left:
Charles d'Albret.
Constable of France.
(Co-Commander of Army).
(Killed at Agincourt).

In the Middle:
Jean II Le Maingre (called Boucicaut).
Marshal of France.
(Captured at Agincourt).

On the Right:
Charles of Orléans.
Duke of Orléans.
(Captured at Agincourt).

Illustration Credits:

Charles d'Albret.
Constable of France.
Date: 21 January 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: Odejea.
(Wikimedia Commons).

Jean II Le Maingre (called Boucicaut).
Marshal of France.
Date: 24 May 2007.
Source: Perso Inkscape.
Author: Patrice Panaget.
(Wikimedia Commons).

Charles of Orléans.
Duke of Orléans.
Date: 6 July 2007.
Source: Own work.
Author: Syryatsu.
(Wikimedia Commons).


Charles d'Albret (died 25 October 1415) was Constable of France from 1402 until 1411, and again from 1413 until 1415. He was also the Co-Commander of the French Army at the Battle of Agincourt, where he was killed by the English Army led by King Henry V.

Jean II Le Maingre (in Old French, Jehan le Meingre), called Boucicaut (1366 — 1421) was Marshal of France and a Knight renowned for his military skill. In the Battle of Agincourt, 1415, he Commanded the French Vanguard, but was captured by the English and died six years later in Yorkshire.

Charles of Orléans (1394 – 1465) was Duke of Orléans from 1407. Charles was one of the many French noblemen at the Battle of Agincourt. He was discovered un-wounded, but trapped under a pile of corpses, incapacitated by the weight of his own armour. He was taken prisoner by the English, and spent the next twenty-four years being moved from one Castle to another in England.



“The Agincourt Carol”.
By: Maddy Prior and June Tabor.
Available on YouTube at

Saint Chrysanthus And Saint Daria. Martyrs. Feast Day, Today, 25 October.


Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

Saint Chrysanthus And Saint Daria.
   Martyrs.
   Feast Day 25 October.

Simple.

Red Vestments.


Martyrdom of Saint Chrysanthus and Saint Daria.
From a 14th-Century Manuscript.
This File: 8 November 2006.
User: Polylerus
(Wikimedia Commons)

"At Rome," says The Roman Martyrology, "the triumph of Saint Chrysanthus and his wife, Saint Daria, Martyrs. After several torments, which they endured for Jesus Christ, under The Prefect Celerinus, they were condemned by The Emperor Numerian to be thrown into a Sandpit, on The Salerian Way, and buried alive there under a heap of earth and stones". This was in 283 A.D.

Mass: Intret.

Monday 24 October 2022

The Lord’s Prayer. In Aramaic (Abun d’Beschmayo). The Mother Tongue Of Jesus.

 


The Lord’s Prayer.
In Aramaic (Abun d’Beschmayo).
The Mother Tongue Of Jesus.
Available on YouTube at

Prayers And Devotions For Allhallowtide.



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* Traditional Mass Propers for All Hallows’ Eve;

* Black Vespers (Vespers of The Dead);

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* Saint Patrick’s Breastplate;

* Long form of The Saint Michael Prayer by Pope Leo XIII;

* A Deliverance Prayer;

* Prayer for those for whom we are bound to Pray;

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adapted for Halloween;

Souling;

* Traditional Soul-Cake Recipe;

* Cheshire Souling Song (music and lyrics);

* Another Souling Song (lyrics).





Saint Raphael The Archangel. Whose Feast Day Is, Today, 24 October.



Archangel Raphael with Bishop Domonte.
Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682).
Current location: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia.
Source/Photographer: http://www.allposters.com/-sp/
Transferred from en.wikipedia 2007-11-26
(original upload date).
Original uploader was Commment at en.wikipedia.
(Wikimedia Commons)


Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

Raphæl (Standard Hebrew רָפָאֵל, Rāfāʾēl, "It Is God Who Heals", "God Heals", "God, Please Heal") is an Archangel of Judaism and Christianity, who, in The Judeo-Christian Tradition, performs all manner of healing. In Islam, Raphæl is the same as Israfil. Raphæl is mentioned in The Book of Tobit, which is accepted as Canonical by Catholics, Orthodox, and some Anglo-Catholics, and as useful for public teaching by Lutherans and Anglicans.

The Angels, mentioned in The Torah, the older Books of The Hebrew Bible, are without names. Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish of Tiberias (230 A.D. – 270 A.D.), asserted that all the specific names for The Angels were brought back by the Jews from Babylon, and modern commentators would tend to agree.

Raphael is named in several Jewish Apocryphal Books (see below).

The Archangel Raphael bound Azazel under a desert, which was called Dudael, according to Enoch 10:4–6:

And again The Lord said to Raphael: 'Bind Azazel hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness; and make an opening in the desert, which is in Dudael, and cast him therein. And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there for ever, and cover his face that he may not see light. And, on the day of The Great Judgement, he shall be cast into The Fire.

 


English: Pope Benedict XV, in 1915.
[Editor: Pope Benedict XV extended
The Feast Day of Saint Raphael
to the whole of The Catholic Church in 1921.]
Français: Photo de Benoît XV prise vers 1915.
Source: Library of Congress.
Author: Unknown.
(Wikimedia Commons)


Of seven Archangels in The Angelology of Post-Exilic Judaism, only Michæl, mentioned as Archangel (Daniel 12:1; Jude, verse 9), and Gabriel, are mentioned by name in The Scriptures that came to be accepted as Canonical by all Christians.

The name of the Angel Raphael, appears only in The Deuterocanonical Book of Tobit. The Book of Tobit is considered Canonical by Catholics, Orthodox, and some Anglicans. Raphael first appears disguised in human form as the travelling companion of Tobit's son, Tobiah (Greek: Τωβίας/Tobias), calling himself "Azarias, the son of the great Ananias". During the course of the journey, the Archangel's protective influence is shown in many ways, including the binding of a demon in the desert of Upper Egypt. After returning, and healing the blind Tobit, Azarias makes himself known as "The Angel Raphael, one of the seven who stand before The Lord" (Tobit 12:15). He is often Venerated and Patronised as Saint Raphael The Archangel.

Regarding the healing powers attributed to Raphael, we have his declaration to Tobit (Tobit, 12) that he was sent by The Lord to heal him of his blindness and to deliver Sarah, his future daughter-in-law, from the demon Asmodeus, who kills every man she marries, on their wedding night, before the marriage can be consummated.


English: Tobias and The Angel
(Tob. 6:1-18).
Русский: Товия и ангел
(Тов. 6:1-18).
Date: 1866.
Source: Doré's English Bible.
Author: Gustave Doré (1832–1883).
(Wikimedia Commons)


In The New Testament, only The Archangels Gabriel and Michael are mentioned by name (Luke 1:9-26; Jude 1:9). Later manuscripts of John 5:1-4 refer to The Pool at Bethesda, where the multitude of the infirm lay, awaiting the moving of the water, for "an Angel of The Lord descended at certain times into the pond; and the water was moved. And he that went down first into the pond, after the motion of the water, was made whole of whatsoever infirmity he lay under". Because of the healing role assigned to Raphael, this particular Angel is generally associated with The Archangel.

Raphael is sometimes shown as standing atop a large fish, or holding a caught fish at the end of a line. This is a reference to The Book of Tobit (Tobias), where he told Tobias to catch a fish, and then uses the gall-bladder to heal Tobit's eyes, and to drive away Asmodeus by burning the heart and liver.

Due to his actions in The Book of Tobit and the Gospel of John, Saint Raphael is accounted Patron of travellers, the blind, happy meetings, nurses, physicians, medical workers, matchmakers, Christian marriage, and Catholic studies.


Saint Raphael's Roman Catholic Church,
Photo: 26 November 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Mattinbgn
(Wikimedia Commons)


As a particular enemy of the devil, he was revered in Catholic Europe as a special protector of Catholic sailors. On a corner of Venice’s famous Doge’s Palace, there is a Relief, depicting Raphael holding a scroll, on which is written: "Efficia fretum quietum" (“Keep the Gulf quiet”).

On 8 July 1497, when Vasco Da Gama set forth from Lisbon, Portugal, with his four-ship fleet to sail to India, the flagship was named, at the King of Portugal’s insistence, Saint Raphael. When the flotilla reached The Cape of Good Hope on 22 October 1497, the sailors disembarked and erected a Column in The Archangel’s honour. The little statue of Saint Raphael, that accompanied Da Gama on the voyage, is now in The Naval Museum in Lisbon, Portugal.

The Feast Day of Raphael was included for the first time in The General Roman Calendar in the year 1921, for Celebration on 24 October [Editor: Pope Benedict XV extended The Feast of Saint Raphael to the whole Catholic Church in 1921]. With the reform of The Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints in 1969, this Feast was Transferred to 29 September, for Celebration together with Saints Michael and Gabriel (both Archangels). Due to Pope Benedict XVI's Summorum Pontificum, The Roman Catholic Church still permits use of The 1962 Calendar, allowing both Feast Days.


English: Church of Saint Raphael The Archangel,
Montreal, Canada.
Français: Église Saint-Raphael-Archange,
495, rue Cherrier, île Bizard. Montreal, Canada.
Photo: 30 July 2011.
Source: Own work.
Author: Jeangagnon
(Wikimedia Commons)


The Archangel Raphæl is said to have appeared in Cordoba, Spain, during the 16th-Century; in response to the City’s appeal, Pope Innocent X allowed the local Celebration of a Feast in The Archangel’s honour on 7 May, the date of the principal Apparition.

Saint John of God, Founder of The Hospital Order that bears his name, is also said to have received Visitations from Saint Raphæl, who encouraged and instructed him. In tribute to this, many of The Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God’s facilities are called “Raphæl Centres”, to this day. The 18th-Century Neapolitan Nun, Saint Maria Francesca of The Five Wounds, is also said to have seen an Apparition of Raphæl.

Raphael is honoured in Islam as one of the great Archangels and is known more commonly as "Israfil" or "Israfel" in Islamic history.


English: Church of The Holy Archangels Raphael and Michael,
Aleksandrów Łódzki, Poland,
Deutsch: Aleksandrów Łódzki, römisch-katholische
Kirche der Hl. Erzengel Rafael und Michael.
Italiano: Aleksandrów Łódzki, Chiesa romana-cattolica
dei SS. Arcangeli Raffaele e Michele.
Русский: Александрув-Лодзинский, костёл Св.
Архангелов Рафаила и Михаила.
Photo: 26 May 2007.
Source: Own work.
Author: KKK2352
(Wikimedia Commons)


According to “The Hadith”, he is the Angel responsible for signalling the coming of Judgement Day by blowing the trumpet (namely Sûr). According to Tradition, the trumpet will be blown three times.

The first blow of the trumpet will signal the beginning of The Last Day and the second blow will signal the death of all living things, and the third blow will signal the time when all the Souls from all ages will be gathered for The Last Judgement. According to The Quran, an unnamed Trumpet-Angel, assumed to be Israfel, has been holding his breath, waiting for Allah's order to blow the Sûr.

The Angel Raphael, along with many other prominent Angels, appears in John Milton's Paradise Lost, in which he is assigned by God to re-warn Adam concerning the sin of eating of The Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil. He also expounds to Adam, the War in Heaven, in which Lucifer and the demons fell, and the creation of the Earth.


Saint Michael's Church, Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland. East Window, by Frederick Settle Barff (1823–1886), depicting The Assumption (top Light), The Archangels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and an Angel blowing The Last Trumpet (upper row), and Saints Patrick, Bridget, Dymphna, and Brendan (lower row). The Tracery matches that of The East Window of Kilconnell Friary (see small picture, below).
Photo: 15 September 2010.
Source: Own work.
Reference: 2010/9614.
(Wikimedia Commons)


(see Note, above).


The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Saint Raphael The Archangel.
   Feast Day 24 October.

Double.

White Vestments.


Saint Raphael is one of The Seven Spirits who always stand before The Lord (Antiphon at The Magnificat) and offer Him the Incense of their Adoration and that of men (Offertory).

"While thou didst Pray with tears," he declared to Tobias, "and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner to conceal the dead in thy house by day, and by night didst bury them, I presented thy Prayer unto The Lord. And because thy wast agreeable to The Lord, it was necessary that temptation should try thee" (Second Lesson at Matins).

Tobias became blind. "The loss of his eye-sight," says Saint Augustine, "was the occasion for the old man to receive an Angelical physician" (Fourth Lesson at Matins).


English: The Archangel Raphael with Tobias.
The Church of Saint Michael, Lutzingen, Germany.
Deutsch: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Michael in Lutzingen, einer Gemeinde im Landkreis Dillingen an der Donau (Bayern), zentrales Chorfenster mit der Darstellung des Erzengels Raphael, der Tobias begleitet.
Photo: 2 December 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: GFreihalter
(Wikimedia Commons)


Saint Raphael, a name meaning "God Heals", was sent by God to cure Tobias, as He sent the Angel who moved the water in the pool called Probatica (Gospel). He told the younger Tobias what remedy he was to use to restore his father's sight, accompanied and protected the young man on his journey, helped him to find a wife, and warded off the wiles of the devil.

"We praise with sentiments of Veneration," The Church sings, "all The Princes of The Heavenly Court, but in a special manner The Archangel Raphael, healer and faithful companion, who chained down the devil under his power.


English: The Church of Saint Michael in Lutzingen, Germany.
Saint Raphael is depicted in one of the Stained-Glass Windows.
Deutsch: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Michael in Lutzingen, einer Gemeinde im Landkreis Dillingen an der Donau (Bayern), Innenraum mit Blick zum Chor.
Photo: 2 December 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: GFreihalter
(Wikimedia Commons)

"O, Christ, King of all goodness, by giving us such a guardian, make it impossible for the enemy to do us harm" (Hymn).

"May The Angel Raphael, physician of our Salvation, help us from The Heights of Heaven, heal all diseases and guide our faltering steps towards The True Life" (Hymn at Lauds).

Pope Benedict XV extended Saint Raphael The Archangel's Feast Day to The Universal Church in 1921.

Mass: Benedícite Dóminum.
Creed.

Sunday 23 October 2022

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